3:05 - Morheim says everyone eager to see actual game - going to show actual gameplay - bringing up SC2 lead designer. Dustin Browder.

If by REALLY HERE you mean it will be released in 3 years, then you are right.

Don't kill yourself vinnie! You'll miss it!

So I hear its Starcraft 2. Woo!

I just realized that [On default settings] we got through a whole page and a half in less then an hour.. Without a flamewar!

They are showing gameplay footage today, chances are the game is set for a 2007 release.

3:09 - controlling protoss zealots - still has psi blades and personal shield - new charge ability that let him quickly close range on enemies. Siege tanks shown - still the same type of behavior where they can lock down - take out zealots really quickly - new protoss unit - called immortals - have special shield that only activates upon being powerfully attacked - siege tanks could barely do any damage to them.

3:07 - Showing gameplay footage - Looks like protoss ships - floating over asteroid/ base structure - entering protoss ase - similar looking buildings - vespene gas still in the game - character pane shows up on right side - some protoss guy - shifts to terran bases floating on rockets over same type of territory - sill collecting crystals as resources - marines load out. Dustin is actually playing the game - nothing in the game is final.

AWESOME!!! OMG!!!

I never played the first one.

*sleep*

You what?!
How is that even possible?
Don't come back here untill you get pwned by a lurker rush.

3:14 - Protoss colossus - huge unit that can blast out dual lasers and use long legs to traverse differences in terrain height - in the demo two of them obliterate about fifty or so zerglings.

3:10 - Terran reapers - can hop across unever terrain with jump packs - two types of small pistols that don't activate immortals. Protoss now have the ability to create shields whereever they want. Protoss can now warp in units from manufacturing facilities anything within pylon range. New protoss unit - stalker - can teleport - quadripedal thing - can keep blinking forward - seems to be a shot cooldown on the ability. Zerg start coming in, giant worms pop out of ground unleasing zerglings. Protoss can use phase fields and teleporting abilities to create an army anywhere on the battlefield, according to Blizzard.

3:15 - Zerglings can mutate into suicidal bomb things thar roll across the ground - very powerful explosions. Colossus using new IK system to move across differences in terraing height. Colossus extremley weak against air strike - New unit for protoss - Pheonix - can overcharge guns for multiple projectile blast - but after blast the ship is rendered inert for a short period.

3:16 - showing space platform environment, land mass floating over planets / nebulae. Showing phoenix units failing to destroy terran battle cruisers - new protoss unit - Warprey - flying unit that does increased damage the longer it hits a target with it's continuous blue laser.

3:18 - warprey also very effective against structures - very vulnerable to small unit fire - shws warpreys getting wiped out by terran marines. Physics system lets debris from warpreys roll down a ramp. Showing one more unit - warped in in a serious of cubes - giant floating base - called a protoss mothership - can only have 1 at a time - cost big resources - special abilities include timebomb that slows all enemy missiles inside - shows terran missle launcher shooting in projectiles that stop in the field before they reach the ship - when field ends missiles drop the ground - planet cracker attack - giant lasers stream from ship to ground - ship can be moved around while planet cracker laser is active - the ship looks like a metallic, triangular sand dollar - mothership can create a black hole anywhere it wannts to - creates distortion that actually sucks ships in and destroys them - in the demo the black hole destroyed four terran battle cruisers in about ten seconds.

3:23 - now showing terran and protoss fight - marines and zealots clashing on the ground - mothership and battle crusers in the air - framerate seems relatively stable as more units stream in - hard to tell - about 100 units on screen right now - a few of the new protoss units just came in - nuclear launch detected warning - every unit on screen destroyed - three nukes were launched at once - then zergs rush in and spell "GG" while turning into suicidal bombs.

3:26 - Showing another video of "things to come." concept art for SC2 - zerg landscapes - ruined terran structures - freen filds - SC2 looks, at least visually, strikingly similar to SC1 - both in unit and map designs. Now showing a giant rush of zerglings - probably over 100 of them, swarming with no slowdown - mroe character art - finishes with the StarCraft II logo.

It's over. Odd that theres been no mention of the 4th race.

Alright, now we just wait over two years.

But at least we know it's coming.

Maybe it will be shipped as a two-pack with Starcraft: Ghost.

12:44mt

Tiberium_Empire, is back and wont be quiet. Not much of a spoiler.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUXoekeDIW8

Youtube link of the teaser.

But its not the gameplay trailer...

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/imgs_1.html
Screenshots!

It's Blizzard.

Christ, peeps. Seriousness.

I love how the quote they use for DII is Deckard Cain saying "Stay awhile and listen!" OH how I hated when that stupid man would say that...

Gameplay:

http://kotaku.com/gaming/chock-full-of-starcraft-2/clip-starcraft-2-gameplay-footage-261850.php

Also - starcraft2.com is up and running.

Diablo III...where are you?

Cool.

Is anyone else kind of unimpressed by the graphics? I was kind of hoping for a more realistic game, this almost looks like a Warcraft 3 mod...

DoW2 will eat it for breakfast...

Sadly QFE

Same.

It's compatible with XP. Which of course means it almost has to come out in 2007 or 2008 at the latest. Otherwise there'd be no reason to support XP.

Wow, those battles were lots of lasers.

They still just stand there and whack at eachother. No grappling and fighting, just standing there, repeating the same 3 animations, and one of them dies. New units seems like the only addition, so far. Yay?

I'm reminded by the alpha shots of the first starcraft game... I think these are very early and we'll see some advancements as we get closer to the actual release.

I noticed that the graphics [Although frigging amazing when all you play is 9 year old games..Like me] really aren't all that great.

And fish has a point compare the first alpha shots to now.

I take back some of what I said about the graphics. The graphics on the gameplay video (although low-quality) look considerably better than the screenshots on IGN.

Also, IGN has some higher quality gameplay videos. http://media.pc.ign.com/media/850/850126/vids_1.html

Why do the marines have shields in the screenshots? And also, I never thought it's such a hassle to put on a marine power armor... Kind of strange that the guy is a convict, too...

LOL, wut?

Also, thank Raptor Jesus it's not Diablo 3. I thought Diablo 2 was the most boring thing ever (although the graphics looked pretty at the time). Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. Click. But maybe it's just me, though.

Diablo 2 was a horrible game. In all honesty, I'm glad there isn't another diablo game for me to waste valuable time on. Honestly, it's the addictive nature of Diablo, coupled with the accessories and ego of your avatar doll, and the really awesome and epic storylines that keep people playing. The "clickfest" is true for all videogames, though. It'd be cool to be able to use the arrow keys in diablo/2